I need to store some important data long term. Is a usb stick a viable option? is there a certain brand or type I should look at?
USB long term storage
Jeremiah Perry
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Robert Clark
>Is a usb stick a viable option
No flash media of any kind if you want that data for more than 20 seconds.
Mechanical Drive, and (encrypted) copies in two or more clouds depending on your level of paranoia. Whatever you do do NOT use flash media, USB drive or SSD, ever for LTS.
Gabriel Gomez
Why?
Leo Jenkins
save it on google drive and amazon cloud.
I guarantee you'll lose the flash drive/hdds at some point.
Cooper White
usb can corrupt data easily read about usb bad sectors..
just use the good old external drive or some kind of protected vps if you dont have a choice
Dominic Smith
I want to store it in a physical location. Should I just buy some cheap hard drives instead?
Benjamin Smith
private keys?
Andrew Nelson
you got me. yes im going to be creating a few cold storage wallets and I need a viable storage option.
Brandon Gonzalez
Fails out of nowhere with no warning.
Hard to recover, usually literally impossible to recover data when the flash chips failed.
Without power if you are unlucky flash drives can lose their data within days to weeks, for comparison I recently managed to recover all data from a mechanical drive that hasn't seen power in this century. And yes that is extreme but unpowered magnetic mechanical drives typically retain their data for literally years.
That is a really shitty idea. If you want to do it anyways buy different harddrives from different manufacturers from different vendors. Why? Cause if you buy 10 drives from one batch when one fails they all will (usually) fail at (nearly) the same time cause they came from the same batch.
You can't beat encrypted cloud backups, you just can't.
Depending on what you want to store printing it and storing it in bank vaults or lockers will be your best option by far.
Jeremiah Price
last time i saved my porn on a 8gb flash drive, the next time I was about to save them permamently on my ssd most of the pictures and some notepads were like corrupted. and even that i kept the usb on a safe place
Thomas Williams
just print it or write it on paper
Jaxon Foster
I want to ecrypt the data. obviously a paper wallet wont work. I also want to store it offline, I might consider having a backup in cloud storage but I also want physical copies.
Julian White
CD-ROM is the most reliable physical storage as far as I know
Isaiah Adams
If you're going to use flash storage of any kind at least buy industrial grade rather than what $0.99 gets you from Wish.
Kayden Jenkins
what brand should I look at?
Dylan Flores
Any that are non organic. They will be much more expensive though. But organic DVDs and CDs literally rot away.
Kevin Morris
good discs should be able to last for 100 years
SONY maybe
Michael Brooks
but non-organic battery cds are probably imported from mexico and full of pesticides
Parker Richardson
Aren't wallet keys pretty small? Maybe you can convert it to QR code or something and print it out
Benjamin Turner
Thanks user
Aaron Thomas
found a shell commands for you
#to encrypt
echo "fagString" | openssl enc -base64
#to dcrypt
echo "ZmFnU3RyaW5nCg==" | openssl enc -base64 -d
Jace James
M-Disc nignog. Anything else and your data isn't important.
USB/SSD/HDD/CD/BluRay are terrible options in that particular order.
Joshua Thompson
Caleb Wood
depends what you are trying to hide i will get one of those super small 64gb pendrive install tails then hide it inside a marker and then put it inside marker box, no one will find it not even you. but one of those 1tb external hard drives are good too. encrypted obviously.
Michael Gutierrez
unplugged flash loses charge after a while and thus loses data (months, might be years for SSDs, enterprise SSD gurantee 3 months, but realistically it's much more)
typically usb sticks use shit flash and have low reliability so its the worst option for long term
William Jones
Just put it on two clouds. The likelihood of data loss is practically zero.
Dominic Collins
just use a fuck ton of zip floppys, its obscure and old enough that no one will even bother trying to get something modern thats compatible with it.
Jose Thompson
>the likelihood of dataloss is practically zero
thats the opposite of the likelihood of getting your shit stolen from using a retarded cloud, right?
Christopher Evans
floppy can lose data easily by magnetic field
Grayson Richardson
thats why you lock it away retard
Adam Green
> what are CMEs
Mason Gutierrez
magnetic tape, not joking.
Colton Morris
can i use a standard dvd burner for m-disc?